Places tstriegel Wants to Go

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.